Category Archives: Measure It and Metabolism

A Short Note On Quinoa. Is Your Estrogen Level Higher Than Your Wife’s?

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Mike Nichols

People are always looking for a loophole in my general injunction to avoid grains; keep in mind this is not a universal injunction but a fairly general one.  I am frequently asked whether quinoa is such a loophole. Here are … Continue reading →

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Prostate Cancer. Mens Rea: Who Knew What And When?

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Mike Nichols

For those of us who are either rusty in our knowledge of the Law or Latin, mens rea means ‘guilty mind.’ In a bit you will see why I rehearse this bit of arcana. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force … Continue reading →

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How Do I Lie To Thee? Let Me Count The Ways. Elizabeth Won’t Mind

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Mike Nichols

Lying to one’s self is a great and necessary art. Heck, a well constructed self-deception is sometimes the only thing that gets us through the day…or the night. Dying of cancer? Denial, self deception, is the first step to healing the … Continue reading →

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Worth The Trouble But Only When You Are Serious

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Mike Nichols

Just some graphs. If you are serious you will have informed yourself of the importance in aging, health and performance of bone mineral density, testosterone, VO2 max, HDL 2B. These graphs from a real person show all but miraculous changes in these … Continue reading →

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Part Two Of The Last One: Another Paradigm

Posted on September 5, 2011 by Mike Nichols

The Last Sentence From “Smart People”: But what to do? Well to answer that question I began to look for an organizing system that would provide a good model to assess the likely benefit or harm of any health intervention … Continue reading →

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